GULLANE, United Kingdom: It takes a lot to impress a young golfing supremo who has just won the US Masters, but Tiger Woods on Tuesday recalled how his first meeting with Nelson Mandela 15 years ago was an experience like no other.
“I went down there to play Sun City, and he invited us to his home. And my father and I went to have lunch with him. It still gives me chills to this day, thinking about it,” Woods told journalists at Muirfield in Scotland, where the start of the British Open on Thursday coincides with Mandela’s 95th birthday.